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Global News Synchrony and Diversity During the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
arXivNews coverage profoundly affects how countries and individuals behave in international relations. Yet, we have little empirical evidence of how news coverage varies across countries. To enable studies of global news coverage, we develop an efficient computational methodology that comprises three components: (i) a transformer model to estimate ...
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Clinical Trial Readiness in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy R1 (LGMDR1): A GRASP Consortium Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Identifying functional measures that are both valid and reliable in the limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) population is critical for quantifying the level of functional impairment related to disease progression in order to establish clinical trial readiness in the context of anticipated therapeutic trials.
Stephanie M. Hunn +29 more
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WTO, agriculture, and developing countries [PDF]
The objective of this paper is to present a survey of trade issues in agriculture from the perspective of developing countries. Developing countries are a large percentage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) membership, and agriculture is critical for ...
Diaz-Bonilla, Eugenio +3 more
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Remittances and Reverse Flows in Developing Countries [PDF]
, 2010 This paper demonstrates that a significant portion of remittances is no longer available for domestic resource mobilization when they are used for debt servicing, capital flight, or reserve accumulation (reverse flows)
Anupam Das, John Serieux
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KIF5A p.Pro986Leu Risk Variant and Accelerated Progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the impact of KIF5A rs113247976 (p.Pro986Leu), a risk allele for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), on phenotypic variability in two Italian ALS cohorts (discovery, n = 865; replication, n = 1174). The minor allele (T) frequency was 0.015.
Arianna Manini +24 more
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Rural credit in developing countries [PDF]
Subsidized formal credit to the agricultural sector has been advocated as more efficient, equitable, and easier to implement than, say, land reform. But the record on subsidized credit to farmers is dismal.
Braverman, Avishay, Guasch, J. Luis
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Explaining Differences in Growth across Developing Countries [PDF]
, 2012 This analysis attempts to explain the differences in per-capita GDP growth in developing countries over the period 2000-2010. Using OLS estimators on an initial cross-section data sample of 30 developing countries, we find that growth rates are ...
Evans, Zachariah, Przedpelski, Alex
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective The study objective was to estimate the budget impact of funding a standardized education and exercise therapy program, Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) for people with hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) waiting for total joint replacement (TJR) consultation in a universal publicly insured health care system in Canada.
Darren R. Mazzei +4 more
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